Soft-tread horseshoe.



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SOFT-TREAD HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters PatentNo, 668,351, dated February 19, 1901. Applioation filed April 23, 1900. Serial No.13,864. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT J. GIVEN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing and having post-office address atHartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a certainnew and useful Improvement in I-Iorsehoes, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is an under face view of a horseshoe embodying said improvement. Fig. 2 is a side View of the same shoe. Fig. 3 is a view of the same shoe on the section denoted by the dotted line x a: of Fig. 1 looking in the direction indicated by the arrow. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevational View of a part of the shoe on the plane denoted by the dotted line 3 y of Fig. 1, its object being to illustrate the staples, which are agents in holding the rubber pad to the metallic shoe.

The object of the improvement is the production of a horseshoe having an elastic pad.

In the accompanying drawings the letter a denotes a metallic horseshoe. There are certain flanges on the horseshoe, formed integral therewith. The letters I) and 1) denote two of these, which may be called toe-flanges, letters c and 0 denote two at each end, which may be called heel-flanges, and those denoted by the letters (I and d may be called.

intermediate flanges. Theletteredenotes a rubber bar embraced by these flanges. This rubber bar is in use an elastic pad. The staples f are a part of the means used. to hold the rubber pad to the plate of the horseshoe. The bodies of these staples follow the curved trend of the horseshoe. They are molded into the rubber, so that the bodies thereof are covered on all sides thereof by rubber, and they are headed at the ends, so as to firmly secure the pad and shoe together. The tenon-like parts of the flanges are also turned inward into the body of the pad, although not so shown in the drawings.

The shoe that is shown in the drawings is designed for the forward foot of a horse.

I claim as my improvement In combination; the horseshoe provided with flanges; the rubber pad located in the embrace of the flanges; and the staples following the curved trend of the horseshoe and molded into the rubber so that their bodies are covered on allsides by rubber and riveted to the shoe at their ends.

' ROBERT J. GIVEN. Witnesses:

W. E. SIMoNDs, LUITGARD MORLA. 

